Welcome to Dawn Cove Abbey: a respite place for those on healing journeys. Dawn Cove Abbey offers "Roadside Assistance" on Your Journey In Life from Darkness into Light. It is here to provide help for whatever it is that brought you here, whether you're working on improving, re-visioning, or re-purposing your life: or to understand a person in your life who is in emotional, spiritual or mental distress.

Dawn Cove Abbey Online is a safe, hospitable, and comfortable space: like an online retreat centre: a place for assisting you to Create YOUR Healing Space - and to find YOUR answers; not mine, or someone else's. A site to help Solveproblems -not just discuss them- to bring healing.

Thoughts, feelings and emotions are the food we feed our mind and spirit with. Good food produces wholesome wellness: this site is full of "good food" - mind and spirit food: it is an ongoing organic "project".

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Where do I come in, on your journey? Simply put, mine is a quite minor role, compared to yours. I provide the "space" -a safe, comfortable place- for you to engage in creating your own healing "space" - this is a rest stop along the way; and there are also resources and support of many kinds for you toAnd I'm here, as a fellow traveller, one who has walked many trails. I am not a "counsellor" in the common usage of that word. I am not you - I do not know the answer to what you need. But I may be of assistance in helping you find it.

My role is to provide with new tools (the information and support items on the site), and to listen, and perhaps suggest some things for you consider; perhaps ask that if what you've been doing isn't working for you, to try something else; something "new".

I cannot, and will not, TELL you what to do - I am not you; my "job" is I helping people to believe in,and heal themselves.

We can brainstorm about it, together; if you so desire. And I can accompany you for a bit, on the trail - or perhaps walk alongside on the entire journey. Once again, that is YOUR choice to make - not mine.

One of my main roles in these journeys people are on, besides providing them with new tools and insights provided by the articles and information, is that of Guide - I am familiar with much of the terrain and can help avoid pitfalls, and perhaps suggest new options. More about my approach, you can find it in the introduction of the "Alcoholism" Main page, and in "About Healing".

My intention, purpose, and hope is to be helpfully informative, and thought-provoking, but never persuasive or judgemental. We live in a magnificent world teeming with natural beauty, with thousands of vibrant cultures, and billions of decent people, all of whom simply wish to live a happy, decent life. Among that great diversity are two small sub-cultures: the "shaming-blaming" one, and the "fear-based" one.

They have achieved prominence totally out of all proportion to the actual reality, because of the way media, and mental health professionals who should know better have jumped on their negative band-wagon and portray them as powerful. They really are not dominant, they are SUB-cultures. When we see and treat them for what they are; 'SUBcultures', we take that power away from them. This site is engaged in doing that. I have nothing to sell: I simply provide "Roadside Assistance"; you'll find many encouraging examples of many, many exceptions to these cultures here.

Life is meant to be celebrated, see the full meaning of celebration HERE and Celebrate-Life. Let's see if we can (together) bring the joy back to your life, and help you be able to celebrate again.Among other things, you will rediscover an essential truth as you browse the site:

that People (Others and YOU) are not their "Label", their "Disorder", "Complex", "Syndrome", or their"Disease", and etc.

and You are not beginning, or going on a journey; you are already on one, and have been since you were born. It's been a constant learning one - see more here.

The Help and Information here are not "Psychological", "Philosophical", nor "Theological": rather it is acquired from the wisdom garnered by humans over the ages - and added-to by my former clients and students; and through observing people in many places and situations during a long time-frame; as well of course, through "formal" and self-directed study. They are based on Life in all its wondrous vastness, intricacies and "mysteries", as I have come to understand it: and now share that with you. I fully believe in people's Human Potential, and their ability to achieve Peak Experiences.

Introduction and comments continue after the site information below.

General Site Content Listing: Navigation MenusThe respective site "section maps" will lead you to more detail.

< An introduction to the healing process and the approach taken here; as well as the nature of the healing journey itself.

< Comprehensive Healing information and support section.

< Various articles and information on Relationships, including "Fear of Intimacy"